netdev - Re: [IPV6] Fix ICMPv6 redirect handling with target multicast address

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Message-Id: <20070929.100448.41933886.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:04:48 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	dlstevens@...ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [IPV6] Fix ICMPv6 redirect handling with target multicast
 address

Dave, Brian,

Let me double check this patch.

Regards,

--yoshfuji

In article <OF5FC97D70.5FD0A80A-ON88257365.00025E58-88257365.00048D1E@...ibm.com> (at Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:50:38 -0700), David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com> says:

> Brian,
>         A multicast address should never be the target of a neighbor
> discovery request; the sender should use the mapping function for all
> multicasts. So, I'm not sure that your example can ever happen, and it
> certainly is ok to send ICMPv6 errors to multicast addresses in general.
> But I don't see that it hurts anything. either (since it should never 
> happen :-)),
> so I don't particularly object, either.
>         I think it'd also be better if you add the check to be:
> 
>         if (ipv6_addr_type(target) & 
> (IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL|IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST))
> 
> or something along those lines, rather than reproducing ipv6_addr_type() 
> code
> separately in a new ipv6_addr_linklocal() function.
> 
>                                                 +-DLS
> 
> 
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